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California
DAI LY il TROJAN
— PAGE THREE —
SC-Oxy Track Meet Postponed by Rain
LOS ANGELES, CALIF., MONDAY, APR. 16, 1956
NO. 113
Fraternity Research Shows Smog Finalist! Induces Lung Cancer
“"e 1000 DOCTORS GUEST
For Queen Contest HER£ pQf, CONVENTION
|0 SWEETHEARTS—Candidates for the I of "Sweetheart of ATO'' pose prettily the camera. One of these lucky lasses be crowned queen and will reign r ATO's sweetheart formal slated for
next Saturday and Sunday at the Palm Springs Tennis Club. Weekend festivities will culminate a week-long program to commemorate ATO's fifth year at SC.
emo Hits e Policy Speech
ostern Senator uggests Changes i Capital Policies^
n F. Kennedy, Democratic nr from Massachusetts, 11 tew word-bombs at his ¡blican opponents Friday noon, but not before he ad-ed to his Founders Hall aud-that as a former Stanford nt, “I always give SC the
FULL SCHEDULE
Jobs Available For Qualified
Interviews for employment will be held by representatives of 19 companies this week from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Employment Bureau, 3462 University Avenue. The schedule follows:
Today Kaiser Steel will have its representative here to speak to majors in engineering,
industrial management, business administration, and accounting.
Maier Forrest of Western Gear Corporation will talk with majors in mechanical engineering, aeronautical engineering, and electrical engineering.
The representative of Combustion Engineering Incorporat-whenever I had the oppor- ! ed> otto DeLorenzi, will inter-
the crux of his address
review of the United present foreign policy, h he labels “weak and in-VIU tive.”
he present administration claim some credit because country is not now at war,” ledy said.
Ideological Persuasion”
lese other weapons, said the ;ar-old statesman, are ideo-al persuasion and technical Itance for backward and col-areas.
id according to Kennedy, weapons have been effec-because Communists have »red one-third of the total In Italy and France; Yugo-ja Is closer than it ever has to the Soviets; Ceylon vot-ncently overthrew the proem government on that is-Burma and Cambodia now (Russian technicians; Eng-is losing much prestige over Cyprus issue; and France is y «lipping in its hold over Africa,
Must Change Policy best way America can de-these Communist and ® weapons, Kennedy ■ Is by revising its present •wiial policy, of the inroads achieved Communists have been in 1 areas which seethe with tent, he said.
United States must dis-! itself from the close of its traditional even if jj means that Rain their disfavor,” y said.
must revert to our old ‘o friendship to all op-People. The United would take the side of P‘e desiring to be free,”
* Domestic Scene
! to the domestic scene, said that since the '40s, Americans I Med to associate the Re-and Democratic parties 1 «ame objectives.
^ due, he thinks, to inferences of the two er the social legislation ei 'he depression, and versy over foreign aid
iWnru .,(l 0,tler countries i"°rld War n.
W» Eisenhower is a liberty think, the pub-: iv| * fueled, because ?nti ass°ciates are hard-core conserv-
ust
view mechanical engineering majors at the bachelor level. He will interview men at the master's level or above in civil engineering, mechanical engineering, aeronautical engineering, chemical engineering, and physics.
Students interested in summer camp work will be able to speak to a representative of the California State Employment Service.
Tuesday, Charles Hammond of General Telephone Company will speak to majors in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, and business administration.
D. E. Clifton representing Burroughs Corporation, Los Angeles, will interview any major interested in sales trainee positions.
Union Oil Company of California will interview business administration majors.
Propulsion Research Corporation’s representative, B. N. Low-rey, will speak with men al all levels in mechanical engineering and aeronautical engineering.
Wednesday, Cai Tech’s Southern California cooperative wind tunnel division will have its representative interview majors in aeronautical engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and civil engineering.
The representative of Litik-Belt Companv will talk with majors in civil and mechanical engineering.
Union Oil Company's representative will be on campus Wednesday for the second time, this time to interview accounting majors.
Pan American World Airways will send its representative to interview women interested in obtaining stewardess positions and majors in business administration, marketing, transportation, L.A.S., and personnel.
Wallace Jamie of Carnation Company will speak to bachelor and master level students in accounting, office management, business administration, chemis-
try, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering.
Thursday, Carnation Company will continue the same interviews.
Applied Research Labs, represented by C. F. Hartman, will interview electrical engineering, and physics majors.
Shell Oil Company of California will talk with all engineering majors interested in summer employment. Students must have completed their junior year by June.
I.B.M. will have Its representative interview students interested in accounting machine sales and majors in business administration and L.A.S.
Crown Zellerbach Company’s B. T. Mulleney will interview majors in chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, electrical engineering, civil engineering, chemistry, and accounting for sales and personnel. He will also talk with sophomores and juniors in mechanical engineering, and chemical engineering for summer employment.
Friday, Crown Zellerbach will continue interviews in the same fields.
A. R. Maas, a division of Victor Chemical, will have Representative Bob Spear speak to chemical engineering majors.
Ducommun Metal’s representative will be looking for business administration and other majors for sales positions.
Remington Rand and Univac will interview any major with courses in accounting or mathematics.
Seven semi-finalists will be selected today to com pete In Alpha Tan Omega's first annual “Sweetheart of ATO” contest.
The final contest winner, along with her royal court, will reign over the Tau’s Sweethcvt formal scheduled for Saturday and Sunday at the Palm Springs Tennis Club.
Trophies, presently on display at Silverwood's, will be awarded to the queen and her two attendants, along with a specal perpetual trophv which will be presented to the queen's sorority or dormitory.
This year's spring formal, held in conjunction with the Sweetheart Contest, will commemorate ATO's fifth year at SC.
"Selection of the three contest finalists will be made Wednesday with the name of the queen being announced Friday,” according to Don Dearing, ATO social chairman.
Today's seven semi-finalists will make guest appearances tomorrow on the Bill Ballance noon to 2 p.m. TV show on channel 13.
Contest entrants are:
Mary Lee Palmer, AOPi; Jean Murphy, DG; Roberta Edmiston, Pi Phi; Diane Fowler, Tri-Delt; Patty O'Neil, AChiO; Dottle Covell, Alpha Phi: Derry Stih-lik, ADPI; Joanne Miner, KD; Rosemary Fankhanel, Gamma Phi Beta; Diane Smith, ZTA; Pat Wynn, Town and Gown; Eileen Samuelson, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Carol Campbell, ChiO; Shari Fields, AEPhi; Kathy Normanly, Kappa Alpha Theta; and Roxey Martin, Alpha Gamma Delta.
SC will host more than 1000 physicians today through Friday during the American College of Physicians' first Los Angeles convention.
Because many of the meetings of the 37th annual session are being held on the campus, the Commons cafeteria will be closed to university personnel between 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. throughout the week.
The coffee bar, Student Union cafeteria, the Trojan grill and fountain, and the second floor dining rooms and terrace of the Commons will be reserved for students and faculty. Buffet iunchcons will be served upstairs to speed service.
Panel discussions of important medical problems will be conducted throughout the week in all five auditoriums in Founders Hall and in Kovard Auditorium from 11:50 a.m. to 1:10 p.m. daily.
Two-way radio and closed-circuit TV will bring demonstrations from the County Hospital to the Shrine Auditorium.
George C. Griffith, MD, professor of medicine and and director of cardio-vascular teaching in the SC medical school, will be general chairman of the convention.
Other SC medical faculty on the arrangements committee are: Drs. Donald C. Balfour Jr. and Clifford B. Cherry, assistant clinical professors of medicine; Thomas H. Brem, professor and co-head of the department of medicine; Richard S. Cosby, Louis E. Martin, Edward C. Rosenow Jr., and John C. Ruddiek, associate clinical professors of medicine; Arthur M. Hoffman, clinical professor of medicine, and William C. Mum-ler, instructor in medicine.
Police Hunting Bicycle Thief
Los Angeles police officers at the University Division last week were searching for the thief, or thieves, who walked off with the tires, wheels, seat, brakes, headlights, and pedals of Don Pen-koff's bicycle.
Penkoff told police Friday that his cycle, which was chained to the back porch of his fraternity house. Alpha Rho Chi, was "stripped" by persons unknown.
Penkoff discovered his bike'3 vital parts were missing two weeks ago, but failed to notify authorities because he thought friends or fraternity brothers were playing a joke on him.
He valued the missing parts at $12, but said it would be difficult to put his bicycle in riding order as only the frame remains.
This is the second bicycle theft from the Alpha Rho Chi house in two years. Last year, Don Treadway had his whole bicycle, including the frame, taken by thieves.___________________
Seniors Planning May 4 Ditch Fete
Swimming, dancing, and group singing combined with plenty of free food and refreshments will highlight the coming May 4 Senior Ditch party.
More than 900 seniors have purchased tickets for the annual event and faculty members have agreed to “look the other way" while seniors
make for the exits.
This year's festivities, slated to last from 11 a.pi. to 5 p.m., have been set for White’s Point, three miles north of Cabrillo Beach and recently the scene of the Kappa Sig-DG luau.
Maps giving complete directions to White's Point will be distributed to campus organizations and posted on all bulletin boards. Printed directions will also appear in the DT at a future date.
Rand to Entertain
A 15 piece bongo band accompanied by Joe Cerrell, TRG chairman, will lead off the day's entertainment with singing and dancing while Lattie C. Tappcn assumes the important role of toastmaster.
Seniors are reminded that they may attend the affair either stag or drag and individual ditch tickets may be purchased at the Ticket Office, second floor of the SU.
Additional senior activity cards, priced at $3. will go on sale today in front of the Student Union or at the Ticket Office.
"This special sale is for the benefit of seniors who missed out on the spring registration sal* and will end Friday," ac-
cording to Steve Robertson, senior class president.
Much Provided The activity card provides for the senior ditch, breakfast, prom (admission for two), the baccalaureate and reception, and Alumni Association membership for one year.
The S3 fee also includes a year’s subscription to the Alumni Review anc, part payment for the senior gift.
Seniors wishing to lake part in one or more of these functions. only are again reminded that they may purchase tickets for each event individually.
Senior
Notice
Seniors wlio have purchased activity cards are advised that they may pick them up this week at the Ticket Office, second floor of the SU.
Senior breakfast reservations should also be made through this office as »»on as possible.
Steve Robertson Senior Class President
Official
Notice
Watchbird Reviews Ups and Downs Of Theta Nu Epsilon on Campus
Uiins
Ike Stalemate
1,1 this combination, '■ W a stalemate l>e-
. his associ-
talk with a
mia. Senator
this s tate will
factor in • the
atic nesiden-
AU freshmen and sophomore students from the college of Letters, Arts, and Science «re requested to make appointments for fall semester pre-registration counseling in the LAS advisement office as determined l»y their last initial in accordance with the following schedule;
Apr. *-21: A-H Apr. 23-May 6: I-Q May a-ltt: H-Z
Paul K. Hadley, director LAS Advisement Oilier, 'M'i Administration Hldg-,
Kxt. 405.
(Editor's note — This is the fourth in a series of Watchbird articles on campus politics. Today the Watchbird traces the history of Theta Nu Epsilon, underground political group, and tomorrow lie Will describe TNE organization and procedure followed at a typical meeting.)
Hy the Watchbird
The tradition of politics at SC goes back almost to the founding date of the school, and the story of Trojan politics clean or otherwise, is intertwined with the story of a secret political fraternity known as Theta Nu Epsilon.
This it the TNE that has come down to the present day through peaks of [tower and depths of defeat, through at least three occasions when the group ceased to exist, only to start anew.
Initial mention of TNE on the SC campus is found in the first El Rodeo, published In 1899. According to the story, the group was founded here in 1896.
TNE then was • drinking and
political group, a local chapter of a national traternity founded at Wesleyan University in Connecticut some 20 years before. Now, however, the local has no connection with the national.
The Tong, then like now, was
ernity men, and it operated under a cloak of secrecy. Shortly after its founding, the local chapter slipped from sight, dying the first of its many deaths.
The next appearance of TNE was in 1931. The group formed to challenge the political power of the Kappa Alpha fraternity, which had virtually established a dynasty in SC politics. Sin^e then, TNE has led a stormy life, being charged with dishonesty, fraudulent elections, and all types of questionable political activities.
Home True, Some Not "Some of the charges have been true, others false," a member says simply.
The charges against TNE stem from two sources. One, since the group was underground, and thereby suspicious, it made a natural target for politicians wishing to gain publicity. The other reason is that TNE did cheat and lie at times to gain its ends.
TNE first popped up with evil overtones in the election of 1935
a fraternity composed of trat- I when a piesidenual candidate
announced he had been a member but wi«K dropping out to fight Tong. The e\-TNE man was edged by the Tong candidate amid charges of fraud.
Another Sea'hdal The next big election scandal involving TNE occurred in 1943 when a Tong candidate again was elected president. A TNE-controlled Senate closed its eyes to voting discrepencles until DT pressure forced a revote. The Tong man lost.
In 1944, the newly elected ASSC president, another TNE man, joined the Navy immediately after his election, appointing his own successor. The DT came out with such a violent protest that the fraternity members stole all the issues of the paper from the printers.
it was during tills period that an investigation of the group was initiated by Dr. Hufus B von KlelnSniid, then president of the university.
After a year of investigation, Dr. von KleinSmid dissolved the ASSC Senate and allowed new (cttutiuuttd on fag* t)
RODGER SWEARINGEN
. . . talks
Stalin s Second Death Means New Cool Wa
Mice Forced to Live In Contaminated Air By Scientist Kotin
Los Angeles smog can induce lung cancer in mice, a research group headed by SC Scientist Dr. Paul Kotin has shown.
Experimenting with air containing a class of compounds present in smog, the findings have broadened the search for the factors rcspon- \ sible for the steady rise in cancer mortality rates.
The results of this research have been announced by the American Cancer Society.
The compounds used in the experiments were oxidation products of aliphatic hydrocarbons. Their sources include Incompletely combusted gasoline and oils, cigarette smoke and industrial smoke and dust.
Dr. Kotin's experiments arc the first of their kind to actually induce lung cancers in animals. He used a strain of mice known to be susceptible to the disease, and had them live and breathe in an atmosphere contaminated with the compounds.
Cancer Develop*
At the end of 40 weeks. 63 per cent of the mice living in the polluted air had developed lung cancer. Of a group of mice subjected to washed air, only 21 per cent developed cancer In the same period.
Multiple cancers, which develop separately in different parts of the lung, were found to be prevalent in 4R per cent of the mice living in polluted air. Only 13.5 per osnt of the mice in washed air developed multiple cancers.
The mice living In the polluted atmosphere wcflghed 20 per cent less • than the mice in washed air. The weight loss was due to the failure of the mice in the polluted air to eat well.
Experiments have previously shown that fat anlitials and mice aw? more susceptible to cancer than skinny ones. However, the rule failed to noticeably narrow the difference in the cancer frequency in these mice.
Start» In Tube*
The type of lung cancer that lips developed In the mice so far is called alveologenlc carcinoma.
It starts in the pulpy air sac parts of the lung or In cells lining the very smallest and narrowest portions of the breathing tubes. |
Among humans, alveologenlc carcinomas are less common, and their Increase has been much less spectacular than those caused In the experimental mice.
A tremendous number of cells with little whlp-llke structures are normally present in the breathing tube lining The whips beat rapidly, ejecting contaminating particles back to the tube and into the throat.
Atmosphere Interfere»
Atmospheric irritants can Interfere with these whips, or they can become exhausted. This effect may make clearing the lungs of extraneous matter difficult, This lowers the normal resistance of the lung and gives cancer - producing materials a chance to localize and accumulate.
Dr. Kotin and his group »re still testing a variety of other compounds on the breathing tubes and lungs of a large variety of other animals.
The SC scientist has also made extensive autonsy studies of humans who died with and without lung cancer. From these studies, he has formed a sequence of events which may be factors in the development of cancer.
Official
Notice
Student* now enrolled In the University who are completing the two year pre-Phnrtnacy requirements and plan to apply for admission to the School of Pharmacy for the class beginning September, lUftti, are requested to notify III« Office of Admlsaioais by Apr. 18.
Applications required of all Pharmacy applicants may bo obtained at the Office of Admissions.
Dorothy P. Nelson, Assistant Director of Admlssioiui.
Russ Club Hears Dr. Swearingen
Josef Stalin's recent “second death” has started Soviet Russia on a new long-range intensified cool war. It will be a war fought with economic and psychological weapons instead of military forces, said Dr. Rodger Swearingen, assistant professor and coordinator of research In the SC School of International Relations in a talk to the SC Russian Research Club.
He is a former American Intelligence officer and State Department official, ajid a graduate of Harvard's Russian Research Center. He returned recently from a trip- through Asia.
"The Communists have apparently decided that a third major world war is out of the question," he said. "The Russians believe they can destroy some of our cities with atomic or hydrogen hombs, but they know they would be wiped out in retaliation. If anyone were left alive, all he would have would be ashes.
Wars Will Remain
“This doesn't mean that little wars will not be fought or that the pressure for world revolution will be lessened. The new campaign fought with smiles, handshakes and technical advisers is already beginning to show Itself in the Middle East and India.”
Stalin died three years ago, supposedly of natural causes, the SC professor pointed out. He was brought back to life for political purposes last year. He was , killed again a few weeks ago, this time by character assassination, being called a tyrant, blunderer and mass murderer.
Army Against Stalin
“Stalin and the Army never got along,” he said. "The Army never forgave Stalin for purging 5000 officers in 1938.”
Each of the handful of men who rules Russia knows that he alone is still unable to combine the power of the Army, the secret police and the Communist party, which an individual dictator needs, the SC professor explained.
These collective leaders trust no one, however, and perhaps to make sure that one of their number does not seize personal power they took the drastic step ot discrediting Stalin the last individual ruler, w.ho had been levered almost as a God.
“It was a play for more public supiKirt at home. The Russian people have been getting led up with the lack of consum-| er goods and the continuation of
1 aibitmy police ve*suie«.

Scx_Jt^örm
California
DAI LY il TROJAN
— PAGE THREE —
SC-Oxy Track Meet Postponed by Rain
LOS ANGELES, CALIF., MONDAY, APR. 16, 1956
NO. 113
Fraternity Research Shows Smog Finalist! Induces Lung Cancer
“"e 1000 DOCTORS GUEST
For Queen Contest HER£ pQf, CONVENTION
|0 SWEETHEARTS—Candidates for the I of "Sweetheart of ATO'' pose prettily the camera. One of these lucky lasses be crowned queen and will reign r ATO's sweetheart formal slated for
next Saturday and Sunday at the Palm Springs Tennis Club. Weekend festivities will culminate a week-long program to commemorate ATO's fifth year at SC.
emo Hits e Policy Speech
ostern Senator uggests Changes i Capital Policies^
n F. Kennedy, Democratic nr from Massachusetts, 11 tew word-bombs at his ¡blican opponents Friday noon, but not before he ad-ed to his Founders Hall aud-that as a former Stanford nt, “I always give SC the
FULL SCHEDULE
Jobs Available For Qualified
Interviews for employment will be held by representatives of 19 companies this week from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Employment Bureau, 3462 University Avenue. The schedule follows:
Today Kaiser Steel will have its representative here to speak to majors in engineering,
industrial management, business administration, and accounting.
Maier Forrest of Western Gear Corporation will talk with majors in mechanical engineering, aeronautical engineering, and electrical engineering.
The representative of Combustion Engineering Incorporat-whenever I had the oppor- ! ed> otto DeLorenzi, will inter-
the crux of his address
review of the United present foreign policy, h he labels “weak and in-VIU tive.”
he present administration claim some credit because country is not now at war,” ledy said.
Ideological Persuasion”
lese other weapons, said the ;ar-old statesman, are ideo-al persuasion and technical Itance for backward and col-areas.
id according to Kennedy, weapons have been effec-because Communists have »red one-third of the total In Italy and France; Yugo-ja Is closer than it ever has to the Soviets; Ceylon vot-ncently overthrew the proem government on that is-Burma and Cambodia now (Russian technicians; Eng-is losing much prestige over Cyprus issue; and France is y «lipping in its hold over Africa,
Must Change Policy best way America can de-these Communist and ® weapons, Kennedy ■ Is by revising its present •wiial policy, of the inroads achieved Communists have been in 1 areas which seethe with tent, he said.
United States must dis-! itself from the close of its traditional even if jj means that Rain their disfavor,” y said.
must revert to our old ‘o friendship to all op-People. The United would take the side of P‘e desiring to be free,”
* Domestic Scene
! to the domestic scene, said that since the '40s, Americans I Med to associate the Re-and Democratic parties 1 «ame objectives.
^ due, he thinks, to inferences of the two er the social legislation ei 'he depression, and versy over foreign aid
iWnru .,(l 0,tler countries i"°rld War n.
W» Eisenhower is a liberty think, the pub-: iv| * fueled, because ?nti ass°ciates are hard-core conserv-
ust
view mechanical engineering majors at the bachelor level. He will interview men at the master's level or above in civil engineering, mechanical engineering, aeronautical engineering, chemical engineering, and physics.
Students interested in summer camp work will be able to speak to a representative of the California State Employment Service.
Tuesday, Charles Hammond of General Telephone Company will speak to majors in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, and business administration.
D. E. Clifton representing Burroughs Corporation, Los Angeles, will interview any major interested in sales trainee positions.
Union Oil Company of California will interview business administration majors.
Propulsion Research Corporation’s representative, B. N. Low-rey, will speak with men al all levels in mechanical engineering and aeronautical engineering.
Wednesday, Cai Tech’s Southern California cooperative wind tunnel division will have its representative interview majors in aeronautical engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and civil engineering.
The representative of Litik-Belt Companv will talk with majors in civil and mechanical engineering.
Union Oil Company's representative will be on campus Wednesday for the second time, this time to interview accounting majors.
Pan American World Airways will send its representative to interview women interested in obtaining stewardess positions and majors in business administration, marketing, transportation, L.A.S., and personnel.
Wallace Jamie of Carnation Company will speak to bachelor and master level students in accounting, office management, business administration, chemis-
try, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering.
Thursday, Carnation Company will continue the same interviews.
Applied Research Labs, represented by C. F. Hartman, will interview electrical engineering, and physics majors.
Shell Oil Company of California will talk with all engineering majors interested in summer employment. Students must have completed their junior year by June.
I.B.M. will have Its representative interview students interested in accounting machine sales and majors in business administration and L.A.S.
Crown Zellerbach Company’s B. T. Mulleney will interview majors in chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, electrical engineering, civil engineering, chemistry, and accounting for sales and personnel. He will also talk with sophomores and juniors in mechanical engineering, and chemical engineering for summer employment.
Friday, Crown Zellerbach will continue interviews in the same fields.
A. R. Maas, a division of Victor Chemical, will have Representative Bob Spear speak to chemical engineering majors.
Ducommun Metal’s representative will be looking for business administration and other majors for sales positions.
Remington Rand and Univac will interview any major with courses in accounting or mathematics.
Seven semi-finalists will be selected today to com pete In Alpha Tan Omega's first annual “Sweetheart of ATO” contest.
The final contest winner, along with her royal court, will reign over the Tau’s Sweethcvt formal scheduled for Saturday and Sunday at the Palm Springs Tennis Club.
Trophies, presently on display at Silverwood's, will be awarded to the queen and her two attendants, along with a specal perpetual trophv which will be presented to the queen's sorority or dormitory.
This year's spring formal, held in conjunction with the Sweetheart Contest, will commemorate ATO's fifth year at SC.
"Selection of the three contest finalists will be made Wednesday with the name of the queen being announced Friday,” according to Don Dearing, ATO social chairman.
Today's seven semi-finalists will make guest appearances tomorrow on the Bill Ballance noon to 2 p.m. TV show on channel 13.
Contest entrants are:
Mary Lee Palmer, AOPi; Jean Murphy, DG; Roberta Edmiston, Pi Phi; Diane Fowler, Tri-Delt; Patty O'Neil, AChiO; Dottle Covell, Alpha Phi: Derry Stih-lik, ADPI; Joanne Miner, KD; Rosemary Fankhanel, Gamma Phi Beta; Diane Smith, ZTA; Pat Wynn, Town and Gown; Eileen Samuelson, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Carol Campbell, ChiO; Shari Fields, AEPhi; Kathy Normanly, Kappa Alpha Theta; and Roxey Martin, Alpha Gamma Delta.
SC will host more than 1000 physicians today through Friday during the American College of Physicians' first Los Angeles convention.
Because many of the meetings of the 37th annual session are being held on the campus, the Commons cafeteria will be closed to university personnel between 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. throughout the week.
The coffee bar, Student Union cafeteria, the Trojan grill and fountain, and the second floor dining rooms and terrace of the Commons will be reserved for students and faculty. Buffet iunchcons will be served upstairs to speed service.
Panel discussions of important medical problems will be conducted throughout the week in all five auditoriums in Founders Hall and in Kovard Auditorium from 11:50 a.m. to 1:10 p.m. daily.
Two-way radio and closed-circuit TV will bring demonstrations from the County Hospital to the Shrine Auditorium.
George C. Griffith, MD, professor of medicine and and director of cardio-vascular teaching in the SC medical school, will be general chairman of the convention.
Other SC medical faculty on the arrangements committee are: Drs. Donald C. Balfour Jr. and Clifford B. Cherry, assistant clinical professors of medicine; Thomas H. Brem, professor and co-head of the department of medicine; Richard S. Cosby, Louis E. Martin, Edward C. Rosenow Jr., and John C. Ruddiek, associate clinical professors of medicine; Arthur M. Hoffman, clinical professor of medicine, and William C. Mum-ler, instructor in medicine.
Police Hunting Bicycle Thief
Los Angeles police officers at the University Division last week were searching for the thief, or thieves, who walked off with the tires, wheels, seat, brakes, headlights, and pedals of Don Pen-koff's bicycle.
Penkoff told police Friday that his cycle, which was chained to the back porch of his fraternity house. Alpha Rho Chi, was "stripped" by persons unknown.
Penkoff discovered his bike'3 vital parts were missing two weeks ago, but failed to notify authorities because he thought friends or fraternity brothers were playing a joke on him.
He valued the missing parts at $12, but said it would be difficult to put his bicycle in riding order as only the frame remains.
This is the second bicycle theft from the Alpha Rho Chi house in two years. Last year, Don Treadway had his whole bicycle, including the frame, taken by thieves.___________________
Seniors Planning May 4 Ditch Fete
Swimming, dancing, and group singing combined with plenty of free food and refreshments will highlight the coming May 4 Senior Ditch party.
More than 900 seniors have purchased tickets for the annual event and faculty members have agreed to “look the other way" while seniors
make for the exits.
This year's festivities, slated to last from 11 a.pi. to 5 p.m., have been set for White’s Point, three miles north of Cabrillo Beach and recently the scene of the Kappa Sig-DG luau.
Maps giving complete directions to White's Point will be distributed to campus organizations and posted on all bulletin boards. Printed directions will also appear in the DT at a future date.
Rand to Entertain
A 15 piece bongo band accompanied by Joe Cerrell, TRG chairman, will lead off the day's entertainment with singing and dancing while Lattie C. Tappcn assumes the important role of toastmaster.
Seniors are reminded that they may attend the affair either stag or drag and individual ditch tickets may be purchased at the Ticket Office, second floor of the SU.
Additional senior activity cards, priced at $3. will go on sale today in front of the Student Union or at the Ticket Office.
"This special sale is for the benefit of seniors who missed out on the spring registration sal* and will end Friday," ac-
cording to Steve Robertson, senior class president.
Much Provided The activity card provides for the senior ditch, breakfast, prom (admission for two), the baccalaureate and reception, and Alumni Association membership for one year.
The S3 fee also includes a year’s subscription to the Alumni Review anc, part payment for the senior gift.
Seniors wishing to lake part in one or more of these functions. only are again reminded that they may purchase tickets for each event individually.
Senior
Notice
Seniors wlio have purchased activity cards are advised that they may pick them up this week at the Ticket Office, second floor of the SU.
Senior breakfast reservations should also be made through this office as »»on as possible.
Steve Robertson Senior Class President
Official
Notice
Watchbird Reviews Ups and Downs Of Theta Nu Epsilon on Campus
Uiins
Ike Stalemate
1,1 this combination, '■ W a stalemate l>e-
. his associ-
talk with a
mia. Senator
this s tate will
factor in • the
atic nesiden-
AU freshmen and sophomore students from the college of Letters, Arts, and Science «re requested to make appointments for fall semester pre-registration counseling in the LAS advisement office as determined l»y their last initial in accordance with the following schedule;
Apr. *-21: A-H Apr. 23-May 6: I-Q May a-ltt: H-Z
Paul K. Hadley, director LAS Advisement Oilier, 'M'i Administration Hldg-,
Kxt. 405.
(Editor's note — This is the fourth in a series of Watchbird articles on campus politics. Today the Watchbird traces the history of Theta Nu Epsilon, underground political group, and tomorrow lie Will describe TNE organization and procedure followed at a typical meeting.)
Hy the Watchbird
The tradition of politics at SC goes back almost to the founding date of the school, and the story of Trojan politics clean or otherwise, is intertwined with the story of a secret political fraternity known as Theta Nu Epsilon.
This it the TNE that has come down to the present day through peaks of [tower and depths of defeat, through at least three occasions when the group ceased to exist, only to start anew.
Initial mention of TNE on the SC campus is found in the first El Rodeo, published In 1899. According to the story, the group was founded here in 1896.
TNE then was • drinking and
political group, a local chapter of a national traternity founded at Wesleyan University in Connecticut some 20 years before. Now, however, the local has no connection with the national.
The Tong, then like now, was
ernity men, and it operated under a cloak of secrecy. Shortly after its founding, the local chapter slipped from sight, dying the first of its many deaths.
The next appearance of TNE was in 1931. The group formed to challenge the political power of the Kappa Alpha fraternity, which had virtually established a dynasty in SC politics. Sin^e then, TNE has led a stormy life, being charged with dishonesty, fraudulent elections, and all types of questionable political activities.
Home True, Some Not "Some of the charges have been true, others false," a member says simply.
The charges against TNE stem from two sources. One, since the group was underground, and thereby suspicious, it made a natural target for politicians wishing to gain publicity. The other reason is that TNE did cheat and lie at times to gain its ends.
TNE first popped up with evil overtones in the election of 1935
a fraternity composed of trat- I when a piesidenual candidate
announced he had been a member but wi«K dropping out to fight Tong. The e\-TNE man was edged by the Tong candidate amid charges of fraud.
Another Sea'hdal The next big election scandal involving TNE occurred in 1943 when a Tong candidate again was elected president. A TNE-controlled Senate closed its eyes to voting discrepencles until DT pressure forced a revote. The Tong man lost.
In 1944, the newly elected ASSC president, another TNE man, joined the Navy immediately after his election, appointing his own successor. The DT came out with such a violent protest that the fraternity members stole all the issues of the paper from the printers.
it was during tills period that an investigation of the group was initiated by Dr. Hufus B von KlelnSniid, then president of the university.
After a year of investigation, Dr. von KleinSmid dissolved the ASSC Senate and allowed new (cttutiuuttd on fag* t)
RODGER SWEARINGEN
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Stalin s Second Death Means New Cool Wa
Mice Forced to Live In Contaminated Air By Scientist Kotin
Los Angeles smog can induce lung cancer in mice, a research group headed by SC Scientist Dr. Paul Kotin has shown.
Experimenting with air containing a class of compounds present in smog, the findings have broadened the search for the factors rcspon- \ sible for the steady rise in cancer mortality rates.
The results of this research have been announced by the American Cancer Society.
The compounds used in the experiments were oxidation products of aliphatic hydrocarbons. Their sources include Incompletely combusted gasoline and oils, cigarette smoke and industrial smoke and dust.
Dr. Kotin's experiments arc the first of their kind to actually induce lung cancers in animals. He used a strain of mice known to be susceptible to the disease, and had them live and breathe in an atmosphere contaminated with the compounds.
Cancer Develop*
At the end of 40 weeks. 63 per cent of the mice living in the polluted air had developed lung cancer. Of a group of mice subjected to washed air, only 21 per cent developed cancer In the same period.
Multiple cancers, which develop separately in different parts of the lung, were found to be prevalent in 4R per cent of the mice living in polluted air. Only 13.5 per osnt of the mice in washed air developed multiple cancers.
The mice living In the polluted atmosphere wcflghed 20 per cent less • than the mice in washed air. The weight loss was due to the failure of the mice in the polluted air to eat well.
Experiments have previously shown that fat anlitials and mice aw? more susceptible to cancer than skinny ones. However, the rule failed to noticeably narrow the difference in the cancer frequency in these mice.
Start» In Tube*
The type of lung cancer that lips developed In the mice so far is called alveologenlc carcinoma.
It starts in the pulpy air sac parts of the lung or In cells lining the very smallest and narrowest portions of the breathing tubes. |
Among humans, alveologenlc carcinomas are less common, and their Increase has been much less spectacular than those caused In the experimental mice.
A tremendous number of cells with little whlp-llke structures are normally present in the breathing tube lining The whips beat rapidly, ejecting contaminating particles back to the tube and into the throat.
Atmosphere Interfere»
Atmospheric irritants can Interfere with these whips, or they can become exhausted. This effect may make clearing the lungs of extraneous matter difficult, This lowers the normal resistance of the lung and gives cancer - producing materials a chance to localize and accumulate.
Dr. Kotin and his group »re still testing a variety of other compounds on the breathing tubes and lungs of a large variety of other animals.
The SC scientist has also made extensive autonsy studies of humans who died with and without lung cancer. From these studies, he has formed a sequence of events which may be factors in the development of cancer.
Official
Notice
Student* now enrolled In the University who are completing the two year pre-Phnrtnacy requirements and plan to apply for admission to the School of Pharmacy for the class beginning September, lUftti, are requested to notify III« Office of Admlsaioais by Apr. 18.
Applications required of all Pharmacy applicants may bo obtained at the Office of Admissions.
Dorothy P. Nelson, Assistant Director of Admlssioiui.
Russ Club Hears Dr. Swearingen
Josef Stalin's recent “second death” has started Soviet Russia on a new long-range intensified cool war. It will be a war fought with economic and psychological weapons instead of military forces, said Dr. Rodger Swearingen, assistant professor and coordinator of research In the SC School of International Relations in a talk to the SC Russian Research Club.
He is a former American Intelligence officer and State Department official, ajid a graduate of Harvard's Russian Research Center. He returned recently from a trip- through Asia.
"The Communists have apparently decided that a third major world war is out of the question," he said. "The Russians believe they can destroy some of our cities with atomic or hydrogen hombs, but they know they would be wiped out in retaliation. If anyone were left alive, all he would have would be ashes.
Wars Will Remain
“This doesn't mean that little wars will not be fought or that the pressure for world revolution will be lessened. The new campaign fought with smiles, handshakes and technical advisers is already beginning to show Itself in the Middle East and India.”
Stalin died three years ago, supposedly of natural causes, the SC professor pointed out. He was brought back to life for political purposes last year. He was , killed again a few weeks ago, this time by character assassination, being called a tyrant, blunderer and mass murderer.
Army Against Stalin
“Stalin and the Army never got along,” he said. "The Army never forgave Stalin for purging 5000 officers in 1938.”
Each of the handful of men who rules Russia knows that he alone is still unable to combine the power of the Army, the secret police and the Communist party, which an individual dictator needs, the SC professor explained.
These collective leaders trust no one, however, and perhaps to make sure that one of their number does not seize personal power they took the drastic step ot discrediting Stalin the last individual ruler, w.ho had been levered almost as a God.
“It was a play for more public supiKirt at home. The Russian people have been getting led up with the lack of consum-| er goods and the continuation of
1 aibitmy police ve*suie«.